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Tip,Make SOAP and Web servers cohabit peacefully

When servers think Web services means Web

From the developerWorks archives

Benoit Marchal

Date archived: February 23, 2017 | First published: February 19, 2004

SOAP's strength is that it builds on the familiar and widely deployed Web infrastructure. That can also be a weakness because Web servers can make assumptions about Web services that are simply not true. In this installment, Benoît discusses some issues with error handling in Web services.

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